Constitution of moral-historical world and human responsability, Paper presented at the Conference “Human Persons and the God of Nature, Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford, September 3rd-6th 2007

Constitution of “Historical-Moral World” and Human Responsibility Dio mentre conosce dispone e ordina, l’uomo, mentre conosce compone e fa [God, while knowing, displays and orders; Man, while knowing, composes and makes] A quotation from Vico’s Work “L’antichissima sapienza degli italici” (The ancient Wisdom of Italic Peoples”) is the starting point for a consideration of the different European intellectual traditions relating the question of human responsibility in constituting and ordering the historical-moral world. Not only categories of Ethics and Theology are involved but also some fundamental political concepts such as “constitution” and “form”. The problem of human responsibility will be presented from a transdiziplinary point of view according to its complexity and multifarious implications.